Abstract
“The Work Environments and Management System from the Perspective of Quality and Safety in Healthcare Working Group” has been considering safe work environments since 2013. In FY 2017, we examined how the promotion of “work style reform” conducted by the government affected the way healthcare workers work. In March 2017, the government compiled “The Action Plan for the Realization of Work Style Reform” incorporating measures to rectify long work hours such as setting a penalized upper limit on working hours. Although physicians are subjected to the working hour regulation, a period of five years has been given until the application of regulation. However, doctors' long and continuous work hours have become a social problem lately. Therefore, hospitals that were handled exceptionally because of the specialty of contents of the operation are currently being actively investigated by the Labor Standards Inspection Office.
At the 12th annual congress of Japanese Society for Quality and Safety in Healthcare, we clarified the viewpoint of the inspection of the Labor Standards Inspection Office for hospitals, and cases of physicians, pharmacists, and nurses were reported. This report is the summary of the symposium WG-2 of the 12th annual congress of Japanese Society for Quality and Safety in Healthcare.
